lorca

Federico García Lorca was born in Spain in 1898. He was a man of enormous intellectual integrity and passion, and a poet of extraordinary eloquence and imagination. Lorca shone as a distinguished, and powerful, voice for liberty and justice - a rare quality in our equally fractured and unjust world. Indeed, these were the reasons that, in 1936, he was assassinated by the fascists.

We name these forums after Lorca to remind us of the continued need to defend our democracy and ensure that globalization serves the needs of people, as well as markets.

Poetry is the impossible

Made possible. A harp

That has hearts and flames

Instead of strings.